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You are correct, it looks like the author used the old British billion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion). Those
by two_handfuls 3y ago
You are correct, it looks like the author used the old British billion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion). Those are supposedly out of use now.
Goes to show, one advantage of the mathematical notation is that it is closer to universal.
- elteto 3y agoNot quite out of use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_usage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Curren... Spain, a large portion of Europe, and many Latin American countries use it.
- two_handfuls 3y agoAha, that explains it! Maybe the author lives there.
- elteto 3y agoIt's from El Pais ;)
- markhahn 3y agoYet our cultures seem resistant to usage like "1.8 teracells". Is it too nerdy? Would it be more palatable to normies if each prefix had a cardinality suffix ("teraion" is not great...)